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Last week marked another milestone for the public cloud. I had the opportunity to attend Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent, along with more than 43,000 other attendees who descended on Las Vegas to hear how organizations are using the cloud, learn from more than 1,300 technical sessions, and catch a highly anticipated lineup of product announcements from AWS (an exhaustive list can be found here). AWS re:Invent registration area AWS re:Invent record attendance

DockerCon EU 2017 Recap: Security, Kubernetes, and MTA Hej from Copenhagen! I’ve had the privilege of spending the last few days here at an incredible DockerCon EU. With thousands of attendees from hundreds of companies converging on the City of Spires, it’s clear that the Docker community is thriving across the world. Here are some of the highlights we saw this week. Docker Continues to Grow by Leaps & Bounds At his morning keynote, Steve Singh, CEO of Docker, highlighted the state of the Docker ecosystem, with 21 million hosts running Docker and more than 24 billion (!

It should come as no surprise that behind the rapid adoption of Docker containers are a set of slam-dunk cost and operational benefits. According to Docker, enterprise IT budgets are heavily consumed by maintenance and upkeep of legacy applications on the order of 80%. Containers drastically change that equation, and the customers that leverage them are realizing massive improvements in resource utilization, resulting in a 50%-60% drop in virtual machines (VMs)– and ultimately, hypervisor licenses– required to run the refactored application.

By now, details of the massive Equifax breach that saw 143 million personal records compromised has made its way around the global news, as well as the broader security and enterprise IT communities. Within these circles, you can bet that anyone responsible for resolving application vulnerabilities is worried about becoming the next headline. There’s little argument that patching applications is a big deal; both in terms of criticality to the organization’s security posture, and in terms of the onerous process it can be when performed in traditional application environments.